AUL's Update

Grace mentioned highlights including elimination of gifts backlog in Cataloging Dept. and ordering backlog in Acquisitions, development of inhouse label printing software program.

Grant Return Expenditures

Grant return money-ca. $63,000-has been used to buy a printer, furniture, a laptop computer/projector set, digital camera, and bindery software. Some money was transferred to the RUL PALINET account. Funds will also be used for travel expenses and camera supplies for preserving image collections.

We have selected Fedora for the RUL digital infrastructure.

Grace commented on a recent trip to University of Pennsylvania to discuss their work with digitized collections. She mentioned their storage crunch, their locally created workflow software, and their mandate to do digitizing for library users. Grace commended RUL for our archival approach to digitization and our attention to metadata.

Approval of 2003 Microcomputer Support Document

John Maxymuk presented a summary of the document, and TSC made comments, including:

Document should spell out what "support" means also what training support is guaranteed

Marilyn Wilt maintains a list of training resources; people wanting training should be referred to Marilyn Wilt

PCWG must be alerted about upcoming need for software or support, especially software needed on public PCs

PCWG should publish, for comment, the standard configuration of public and staff PCs

Public PCs are re-imaged each semester

We also need to know the criteria that are being used for judging what applications will be supported

Support of open source software will be discussed in the future; critical consideration is interoperability

Action

Grace will email the PCWG about policy statements that should be added to document; PCWG will meet to revise document and send the revision to TSC and Public Services Council for review.

Inventory and Stacks Automation WG Interim Report

Chris Sterback summarized the report, and TSC made comments, including:
We should order Palm Pilots